Not gonna get between you two, it could also be that you are a Googler and are thus inside the reality distortion bubble. Or maybe merely a SV resident. It's go

Not gonna get between you two, it could also be that you are a Googler and are thus inside the reality distortion bubble. Or maybe merely a SV resident. It's gonna twist your perception in ways you cannot even see until you're outside of that lens. Google has a tendency to take over people's lives. Googlers so often have only other Googlers as friends, eat 2 or even 3 meals a day there, the company is overly concerned with your well-being and work-life balance, etc. Part of your underlying point seems to be that since Google is made up of seemingly nice and well-meaning people that it couldn't possibly be a horrible thing. I'd argue that it is instead the configuration of people and its incentives that can turn something truly horrible. (something like the infamous prisoner experiment, but milder: Google essentially presents an internal narrative about its own virtuosity and need to scale and swallow the world) And I'd agree with the OP that the senior leadership is mostly concerned with scaling either their own fortunes or the company's bottom line. 1. Sure they don't say that out loud. It's just an assumption baked so deeply into the mindset that no one even considers it a thing worth openly stating or questioning. And others might quibble about making information universally accessible being wonderful. A lot of information is misinformed propaganda. Look at flat earth videos. 2. You are talking about decentralization (and replication) as a means of implementing robustness. You fundamentally misunderstood what this person was saying. 5. There are a massive number of free market libertarian types when it comes to economics, especially among the upper management. Someone else pointed out that none of these assumptions are all that damning. I agree, they aren't. And I agree that the OP missed that Google's fundamental sin was its decision to be, at its core, an ad company. Googlers definitely don't understand that, either.